The researchers believe that Neanderthals, an extinct species of human known to have lived in that area as far back as ...

No other Indian fruit can match the mango for its historical significance, its sociocultural importance and its almost ...

In a groundbreaking revelation, NASA’s rover discoveries may change everything we thought we knew about thehistory of Mars.

The research in North Carolina documents downstream remnants of the 35-million-year-old tsunami that followed the ...

Scientists decoded the DNA of an ancient Egyptian man, uncovering surprising links to both North Africa and Mesopotamia in a ...

Archaeologists have discovered a once-bustling city with buildings that had multiple storeys, and a temple of the cobra ...

A better understanding of human smell is emerging as scientists interrogate its fundamental elements: the odor molecules that ...

We know that some animals are bilaterian—meaning they display bilateral symmetry—while others are not, but nature is rarely ...

Scientists have created a near-copy of the long-extinct dire wolf. Using advanced CRISPR gene editing tech, it now looks ...

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...

The ancient history of Earth has always been hard to read. Most of the planet’s earliest crust has been lost, buried, or melted by geologic processes over billions of years.

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...